“Like Freud, Hitchcock diagnosed the discontents that chafe and rankle beneath the decorum of civilization” (Peter Conrad, The Hitchcock Murders)Ī deep understanding and estimating any character from the silver screen requires the knowledge of the vision of the creator of that character which, in our case is Alfred Hitchcock. Bates, showing that the boy is lost forever, and that he is now transformed into Mrs. In the last seconds of the film, Bates is seen smiling and thinking himself Mrs. At the end of the film a psychiatrist explains Bates’s multiple personality disorder. He kept his mother’s corpse inside the house and would even dress and speak like her sometimes.
Moreover, he had killed his mother and her lover out of jealousy and then became insane from guilt.
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At the end of the movie it is discovered that it was actually Bates who had committed all those crimes. Crane’s sister and Loomis go to the Bates Motel to investigate Arbogast’s disappearance and would have been killed too if not for Loomis who succeeds to stop Bates. He reaches the Bates Motel, where once again a person looking like Mrs. Arbogast, a private investigator starts trying to find clues on Crane’s current whereabouts. Then Crane’s sister goes to see Loomis and tells him about Crane’s disappearance. Bates finds Crane dead in the bathroom, and hides all the evidence of the crime by throwing her body, her possessions, the money and, her car into a swamp. After that, while Crane is taking a shower, she is stabbed to death by someone who seems to be Mrs. He seems to live only for her, and gets angry at Crane when she tries to show him that his mother is being selfish. The only person who Bates cares about is his mother. Bates immediately takes an interest in Crane, and they have a conversation where a lot about Bates’s character comes out. On her way she stops at the Bates Motel, which is run by Norman Bates. Crane then escapes with that money because she thought that the money will solve her financial predicament and hence also resolve the complexity surrounding her love life.
The responsibility of putting the money away in the bank is left to Crane. After that we see Crane working in an office where a client gives Crane’s boss forty thousand dollars. The couple couldn’t get married due to Loomis’s poor financial condition. The plot of the film begins with the character of Marion Crane and her boyfriend Sam Loomis. He portrayed the character of Norman Bates so well that according to the American Film Institute lists of the top hundred heroes and villains, Norman Bates has ranked as the second greatest Villain in the history of American film and the dialogue “ A boy’s best friend is his mother” has ranked 56 in the list of 100 greatest movie quotes. Later on, the master of suspense, film director Alfred Hitchcock made a screen adaptation of the novel which became one of his best films – Psycho.
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The real life inspiration of this character was the serial killer Ed Gein. Norman Bates is the central character of the novel “Psycho” written by Robert Bloch.
“I suppose it must have all started when I was in my mother’s arms at the age of six months and she said to me: ‘boo’ and scared the something out of me, you know” – (A.Hitchcock in Robinson, R, 1960)
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